presented by Ed Chang and Jentery Sayers, 10+31+2007

for research exposed! (general studies 391) at the UW

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Closing Comments on Technoliteracy

Technoculture studies asks us to re-think the apparent divide between technology and culture. As practitioners of technoculture studies, we understand technology as culturally embedded and the vice versa.

Consequently, this understanding entails a more robust approach to researching both technology and culture, as well as a new set of research practices, which might:

• Involve more collaboration in the humanities,
• Alter how work is published, archived, and circulated (e.g., online journals and blogs),
• Refigure how the humanities engages fields outside of the academy,
• Attend more to how people actually perceive and use media, and
• Change modes of instruction and learning.

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